Apocalypse Now Redux

The filming of Apocalypse Now, easily one of the most insane war movies ever, almost broke Francis Ford Coppola. But the long months of shooting gave him a hell of a lot of extra material, some of which he used for the film’s 2001 rerelease. As TIME’s Richard Corliss wrote, “Apocalypse Now Redux is more than a tinkering, with a brief scene added here, some computer effects daubed in there. It is a complete recutting of the original 5-hr. assemblage; the 2½-hour running time of the 1979 version has been expanded to include 53 minutes of previously unshown footage. If any recut can be a ‘new’ movie, this one is.”